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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Roda in Altenburg (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Eduard Giltsch, Jena, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Historia von Doctor Johan Fausten, dem weitbeschreyten Zauberer und Schwarzkünstler, wie er sich gegen dem Teufel auf benannte Zeit verschrieben / was hierzwischen er für seltzame Abenteuer angerichtet und getrieben, bis er endlich seinen wohlverdienten Lohn empfangen Notgeld der Stadt Roda in Altenburg Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf Roda, 30.9.1921. Der Stadtrat: Goede 7: Das sogenannte Fausthaus in Roda 25 Pf. |
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| Reverse lettering | Doctor Faustus ist eines Bauern Sohn, gewes zu Roda bei Weimar bürtig Notgeld der Stadt Roda. 25 Druck von E. Giltsch - Jena |
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Roda — now Rodewisch, not to be confused with Roda in Saxony — was one of hundreds of small Thuringian municipalities that turned to local printers during the postwar coin shortage to produce Kleingeldersatz notes. Eduard Giltsch in Jena was a respected lithographic house with a long history of quality commercial printing, which is why several Thuringian towns contracted with them rather than using cheaper offset printers during the 1921 inflationary spiral.
Small-denomination Notgeld from towns this size typically circulated for only a few months before being called in, which paradoxically inflated collector demand almost immediately — many issues were produced with philatelic buyers in mind from the outset.